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Dizzam_sl

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tad10_sl said:
It's not even close. That's the problem. I have no issue with them changing things around to fit the must-start-in-Qeynos gameplay but they kept nothing that matters save a few of the names.
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I'm most disappointed with their decision to basically make all of the races best buddies. It's become a two sided war--allof the players against the dragons. Their approach seems to be - "you can choose any race you want, look fierce, and be on the good team! Yay for choices!" The problem is, I don't want to be on the good team. I want to be on the bad team. And I want to be fat. So, where are my choices?

This doesn't bode well for the lore or for future prospects of meaningful PvP.
 
Malakriss

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tad10_sl said:
As I've said, and where I disagree with Malakriss and etchazz, I'm interested in the voxel tech and combat mechanics. Could be very fun, they just have to stop screwing up the IP and it could be a very solid game. Not EQ3, but still a solid enjoyable game.
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EQN according to Malakriss

Characters
I'm fine with 8 abilities, I'm fine with gear being used to influence abilities more than stats and I can even accept the tiering system over leveling. I dislike what they're doing with the lore, the gods, the bazillion classes each with extremely narrow weapon choices. So when you mix those pluses and minuses I dislike how (I assume) the bazillion classes will influence the gear and itemization choices into a Diablo 3 loot system.

The Graphical World
I love the environment and what voxels can do but hate what they did with the races and the SOEmote. I further hate their reasoning for animations being linked a bazillion classes and weapons. While the female human model wasn't abysmal, we're going from original models to luclin models to EQN Kerran model?

Public Relations
Their reveal was... underwhelming. Their poster child videos left out more than they showed and their online discussion / roundtable polls are not helping their image, digging into potential gameplay, or encouraging their existing fanbase at all. 12 Angry Poopsockers and SOE are the guys supplying the arguments for reasonable doubt

The Back End
Voxels and StoryBricks are great, you need that basic infrastructure to do the wild next generation things. But a great back end doesn't make a product great. I would use Windows 8 as the prime example, where it doesn't matter how much they've improved or optimized behind the scenes, the interface and the whole presentation can sink the whole system.

God damnit. EQ1 is Windows XP, EQ2 is Vista, and EQN is Windows 8. EQ3 was supposed to be Windows 7 but that was the scrapped iteration. God damnit. God damnit. God damnit.
 
tad10

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jarrettmp_sl said:
That's Voxel built forest. Tell me you wouldn't prefer EQN look like that.
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I am not EQN's biggest fan, but tbh I have no problem with EQN's look and I mean both the girl, lion-o and the foliage. Only lion-o's armor was over the top. It's probably because I saw Vanguard's character graphics age before my eyes from sweet (2007) to meh (2010).
 
Teekey

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jarrettmp_sl said:
I don't think it looks great either. I'm sure it's had barely any work put towards it. I meant in terms of authentic vs cartooney look.
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Did EverQuest Next's environment look overly cartoony? I thought it looked pretty decent.

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gogojira_sl

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It looks good, but like a forest I'd see in every day life. Not saying that couldn't translate to EQ, but I found Feerrott to be more interesting.
 
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Jarnin_sl

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jarrettmp_sl said:
That's Voxel built forest. Tell me you wouldn't prefer EQN look like that.
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It's a voxel forest built by someone that doesn't know what a forest looks like. Besides, we've seen only one example of what a forest will look like in EQN - Feerrott - and most of that was on the ruined road that they demoed, not actually running through the forest. The trees and grass in that video looks more realistic, but it's lacking all the other types of plants that make up a forest (shrubs, vines, mosses, etc.), so it actually looks fake as shit to me. Plus it's shot from the perspective of a snake.

The look of something is subjective. Saying that forest is better than another comes down to personal preference. Same reason why I didn't freak out when I saw the Kerran. It looked cartoony to me, but not bad (of course if you think cartoony is bad, then you're probably going to have a bad time in EQN).
 
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jarrettmp_sl

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Right, it needs to be understood that I did not link that video in an attempt to show a great looking forest. Simply to compare authentic grass and trees to cartooney grass and trees. Like in the demo video where the golem runs over the tree, and it jumps out of the ground and all the voxel boxes fall apart.

Jarnin is right, too, that maybe I'm in the minority by saying authentic is better than cartooney. I think cartooney looks bad. I also think an authentic look really enhances the immersion. But that's me. I really hope the game turns out amazing...
 
Teekey

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jarrettmp_sl said:
Right, it needs to be understood that I did not link that video in an attempt to show a great looking forest. Simply to compare authentic grass and trees to cartooney grass and trees. Like in the demo video where the golem runs over the tree, and it jumps out of the ground and all the voxel boxes fall apart.
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I must have missed where in your video the trees splintered 'realistically'.
 
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Whelp, been busy today at client who we had to drag their POS system kicking and screaming into the new century (moving from a fucking Foxpro , that's right , Foxpro circa 97 database to SQL 2008 based software is fucking fun let me tell you).

So actually haven't had a chance to read all the missed pages other that a few posts back, which I will do no but I have to ask questions.

Has Ponytail and Company replied in any way/anywhere about the fact that no fucking ninjas or guns is far leading in the official polls ?

Have they announced cut-the-rope and other mini games will be implemented into the game as that's all we are missing now is IOS apps inside the game ?

And how long before hot air balloons , hang-gliders , and small prop powered biplanes are announced as travel mounts for the new EQ lore ?

(and I will +1 Mala for the windows comparison , I want my fucking EQ 7 too , perfect analogy ).
 
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